Green means go!

This morning I went to the RE and had an u/s. Dr. Awad said my lining is very thin, and I don't have any cysts. No surprise there! I also had blood drawn and the nurse called me a little bit ago and told me my E2 was 8.8. YIKES! That's the lowest ever!!! Usually it's in the low 20's when my baseline is done, and that's even where it was this summer for the baseline for IVF. But for some reason it's even lower this time. The Lupron was doing it's job! It's amazing I wasn't having more side effects with my estrogen being supressed that low (compared to up around 3,000 with IVF this summer - what a shift!). I have been more emotional, but that's about it.

I went to the pharmacy to pick up the estrodial valerate as when I dropped off the RX 19 days ago they said they would have to order it, but they would have it in the next day. I didn't need it until today so I hadn't gone back. Well they didn't have it!! They said it would be in later this week. I asked why no one called me over the past 19 days??? I said I need it TODAY! I tried to stay calm, but I admit I felt a sense of panic overtaking me! He said he'll make some calls and after a few calls said "you're in luck." I don't view it as "luck" that the pharmacy will have my RX ready when I give them 19 days lead time, LOL! So anyhow I came back 2 hours later after ladies Bible study and picked up my BIG bag which was a brown paper bag like a grocery size bag. I thought wow that estrogen takes up a lot of room. WRONG! The estrogen was in two tiny vials that could both fit in the palm of one hand. There were 80 syringes filling up the bag. Completely overwhelming. Plus the nurse had given me 4 vials of progesterone (medical supply not something you get an RX for) and I also asked for more subq needles as we only had a few left so she gave me 8 more of those. So I left with 20 Tuberculin needles, 60 intramuscular needles, and 8 subcutaneous needles. 88 needles is just tooooo many. Looking at the stash makes me want to bawl my eyes out! I'll need a lot more if this baby hangs on, but it will be much easier emotionally to torture myself if I know it's not in vain. So Paul gave me my first EV injection. I only need it on Tuesdays and Fridays so I don't expect my hips to be sore until I start the PIO injections. I did bleed afterward though which is unusual for the first one.

I also went to Staples and dropped off the disk for them to produce 15 sets for 15 more profiles for Lifetime. I made a few changes to it this morning based on our profile for Cathy but mostly it's the same one we always use for Lifetime. Then I went to CVS and picked up the photos for the profiles that I had ordered online last week through Kodak gallery's website (cheaper to have them shipped to the store than our home). I'll go back to Staples this evening and pick the copies up (she said they'd be ready around 5pm) and tonight hopefully Paul and I can assemble them so they can be mailed on Thursday to California. It feels like a waste of time and money, but at least we'll have peace of mind knowing we did our part these past 36 months.